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Issue: Vol. 4999 No. 4: 13 Jul. 2021
Type: Correspondence
Published: 2021-07-13
DOI: 10.11646/zootaxa.4999.4.9
Page range: 397-400
Abstract views: 501
PDF downloaded: 205

Updates on the Fixator—Facilitating the investigation, mounting, and photography of structures and specimens in liquid

University of Hohenheim, Systematic Entomology (190n), Garbenstr. 30, D-70599 Stuttgart, Germany; State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
State Museum of Natural History Stuttgart, Entomology, Rosenstein 1, D-70191 Stuttgart, Germany
Lepidoptera

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